frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

fp.

Show HN: Bitcoin wallet on NXP SE050 secure element, Tor-only open source

https://github.com/0xdeadbeefnetwork/sigil-web
1•sickthecat•1m ago•0 comments

White House Explores Opening Antitrust Probe on Homebuilders

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-06/white-house-explores-opening-antitrust-probe-i...
1•petethomas•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MindDraft – AI task app with smart actions and auto expense tracking

https://minddraft.ai
1•imthepk•6m ago•0 comments

How do you estimate AI app development costs accurately?

1•insights123•7m ago•0 comments

Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 5

https://libroot.org/posts/going-through-snowden-documents-part-5/
1•goto1•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP Server for TradeStation

https://github.com/theelderwand/tradestation-mcp
1•theelderwand•11m ago•0 comments

Canada unveils auto industry plan in latest pivot away from US

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgd2j80klmo
1•breve•12m ago•0 comments

The essential Reinhold Niebuhr: selected essays and addresses

https://archive.org/details/essentialreinhol0000nieb
1•baxtr•14m ago•0 comments

Rentahuman.ai Turns Humans into On-Demand Labor for AI Agents

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronschmelzer/2026/02/05/when-ai-agents-start-hiring-humans-rentahuma...
1•tempodox•16m ago•0 comments

StovexGlobal – Compliance Gaps to Note

1•ReviewShield•19m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Afelyon – Turns Jira tickets into production-ready PRs (multi-repo)

https://afelyon.com/
1•AbduNebu•20m ago•0 comments

Trump says America should move on from Epstein – it may not be that easy

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4gj71z0m0o
5•tempodox•21m ago•1 comments

Tiny Clippy – A native Office Assistant built in Rust and egui

https://github.com/salva-imm/tiny-clippy
1•salvadorda656•25m ago•0 comments

LegalArgumentException: From Courtrooms to Clojure – Sen [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmMQbsOTX-o
1•adityaathalye•28m ago•0 comments

US moves to deport 5-year-old detained in Minnesota

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-moves-deport-5-year-old-detained-minnesota-2026-02-06/
4•petethomas•31m ago•2 comments

If you lose your passport in Austria, head for McDonald's Golden Arches

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-embassy-mcdonalds-restaurants-austria-hotline-americans-consular-...
1•thunderbong•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mermaid Formatter – CLI and library to auto-format Mermaid diagrams

https://github.com/chenyanchen/mermaid-formatter
1•astm•51m ago•0 comments

RFCs vs. READMEs: The Evolution of Protocols

https://h3manth.com/scribe/rfcs-vs-readmes/
2•init0•58m ago•1 comments

Kanchipuram Saris and Thinking Machines

https://altermag.com/articles/kanchipuram-saris-and-thinking-machines
1•trojanalert•58m ago•0 comments

Chinese chemical supplier causes global baby formula recall

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/nestle-widens-french-infant-formula-r...
2•fkdk•1h ago•0 comments

I've used AI to write 100% of my code for a year as an engineer

https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1qxvobt/ive_used_ai_to_write_100_of_my_code_for_1_ye...
2•ukuina•1h ago•1 comments

Looking for 4 Autistic Co-Founders for AI Startup (Equity-Based)

1•au-ai-aisl•1h ago•1 comments

AI-native capabilities, a new API Catalog, and updated plans and pricing

https://blog.postman.com/new-capabilities-march-2026/
1•thunderbong•1h ago•0 comments

What changed in tech from 2010 to 2020?

https://www.tedsanders.com/what-changed-in-tech-from-2010-to-2020/
3•endorphine•1h ago•0 comments

From Human Ergonomics to Agent Ergonomics

https://wesmckinney.com/blog/agent-ergonomics/
1•Anon84•1h ago•0 comments

Advanced Inertial Reference Sphere

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Inertial_Reference_Sphere
1•cyanf•1h ago•0 comments

Toyota Developing a Console-Grade, Open-Source Game Engine with Flutter and Dart

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fluorite-Toyota-Game-Engine
2•computer23•1h ago•0 comments

Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Labor Behind Modern Literary Masterpieces

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/typing-for-love-or-money/
1•prismatic•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: A longitudinal health record built from fragmented medical data

https://myaether.live
1•takmak007•1h ago•0 comments

CoreWeave's $30B Bet on GPU Market Infrastructure

https://davefriedman.substack.com/p/coreweaves-30-billion-bet-on-gpu
1•gmays•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Perplexity Comet

https://comet.perplexity.ai/?a=b
43•birriel•7mo ago

Comments

bachittle•7mo ago
AI-based chromium forks are becoming as common as AI-based visual studio code forks. I wouldn't be surprised if AI-based Linux distros started becoming popular too. Seems the ideal workflow is to fork off of existing open-source solutions, add paid features and lock behind paywall, make profit.
Spartan-S63•7mo ago
I want more Webkit forks rather than more Chromium forks. That battery life is critical for me on my Mac and I think Webkit returning to Windows would be interesting too!
samrus•7mo ago
anything but chromium forks. i want real competition in the browser engine space
xnx•7mo ago
I thought the battery-life meme was a myth? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41542413
sea-gold•7mo ago
Have you checked out Orion? It is WebKit based.

[1] https://kagi.com/orion/

aitacobell•7mo ago
Cautiously optimistic that Browser Wars 2 will right many wrongs. Chrome is so bloated now.
poisonborz•7mo ago
Don't expect these companies to be interested in the actual browser / DOM rendering technologies and the betterment of standards. They'll be run of the mill Chromium forks.
aitacobell•7mo ago
Comet, Arc, and these other challenger browsers will hopefully light a fire under Google
xnx•7mo ago
> light a fire under Google

Do you feel Chrome has been under-delivering?

I see frequent and visible feature changes. I do wish Project Mariner wasn't limited to their Ultra tier.

aitacobell•7mo ago
Yeah I do, but more for its bloat and the erosion of search quality.
_boffin_•7mo ago
What do you think this browser will be built on-top of?
pram•7mo ago
Yeah the problem with Chrome is it doesn't have enough AI shit crammed into it.
dustyharddrive•7mo ago
Arc has been abandoned.
lofaszvanitt•7mo ago
Nobody seen that coming
aitacobell•7mo ago
Interesting, it has? The hype has died out but I see it in the wild
dustyharddrive•7mo ago
They pivoted to "AI": https://browsercompany.substack.com/p/letter-to-arc-members-...
pjm331•7mo ago
a landing page about a new browser and then...

> Venus is brilliant in our sky, but brutal up close. Once possibly Earth-like, it fell into a runaway greenhouse state. Now it simmers under acid clouds, its surface hot enough to melt lead. It spins backward, slowly and strangely, like a world rewound in time.

a bunch of facts about planets?

i use perplexity all of the time and think its a good product but this page is baffling to me

reaperducer•7mo ago
i use perplexity all of the time and think its a good product but this page is baffling to me

Well, it's right there in the name: Perplexity.

Finally, some truth in marketing!

samrus•7mo ago
is this a real innovation in the browser UX, or just a ploy to vacuum up as much data as possible?

you can never trust VC backed startups to do things for the users' net benefit

xnx•7mo ago
The later
kveykva•7mo ago
The scroll hijacking on this site itself erodes my trust in this being a browser I want to use because it demonstrates a lack of understanding of the web.
qntmfred•7mo ago
and it's playing sound effects on button mouseovers? boooo.
hexomancer•7mo ago
Yeah, I can’t believe this is a serious website made by a multi million dollar company. It looks like something I would have designed when I was 10.
wy35•7mo ago
Scroll hijacking is the worst. Makes everything feel sluggish and unresponsive. Instantly gives me the urge to close out the tab.
xnx•7mo ago
A "new" browser in the '20s is the equivalent of a browser toolbar in the '00s. It's not a product, it's a feature.
woadwarrior01•7mo ago
IMO, we're back to the late 90s when every kid (I was one of them) would slap the IE ActiveX control onto a VB6 form and call it a browser.
kurtoid•7mo ago
Solve the captcha/scraping problem by scraping directly in the browser. Genius
lousken•7mo ago
is that the spyware browser?
pelagicAustral•7mo ago
Is there a non-spyware browser? holy shit!
fsflover•7mo ago
IceCat.
mmh0000•7mo ago
Firefox + arkenfox (https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js)

Ungoogled Chromium (https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

Tor Browser (https://www.torproject.org/download/)

rylan-talerico•7mo ago
Excited for this & curious how it will compare with Dia.

Launch site feels busy, though.

Alifatisk•7mo ago
As far as I know, Dia have a waiting list atm?
woadwarrior01•7mo ago
Scrolljacking aside, why do the images on the page have the trademark yellow hue from ChatGPT generated images?
seatac76•7mo ago
OpenAI Reaponse: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/openai-releas...
sea-gold•7mo ago
> OpenAI's browser is built atop Chromium, Google's own open-source browser code, two of the sources said.
Alifatisk•7mo ago
Isn't Perplexitys Comet also built ontop of Chromium?
lofaszvanitt•7mo ago
oh, it will be groundbreaking.... eeeeeeee nooooo.
sea-gold•7mo ago
I'm rooting for Ladybird[1], a brand-new browser from scratch, backed by a non-profit.

[1] https://ladybird.org

lofaszvanitt•7mo ago
It's time to wreak havoc on the back orifice of existing solutions.
ageitgey•7mo ago
It's a nice idea, but it is still pretty far from even a public v0.1. I think they can get there, but it will be at least a few years.
daft_pink•7mo ago
Is there a simple english summary of what this is and what it does before I download it?
pjm331•7mo ago
this is a much better page about it imo https://www.perplexity.ai/comet/gettingstarted
andrewinardeer•7mo ago
Am I overlooking something or is this just a link to a waitlist? There isn't actually a release yet, right?
pjm331•7mo ago
correct unless you are on the perplexity max plan
pona-a•7mo ago
This has to be among the least informative landing pages I've seen yet. Vague marketing woo, giant hero images, scroll hijacking, sound effects, and zero screenshots.

They literally have a sliding section taking up significant scroll height that's dedicated to our solar system, and when I clicked one of the planets, expecting it to maybe reveal a usage example—I did actually get a full spiel about Mars, with still no hint of the product.

Alifatisk•7mo ago
This page was better https://www.perplexity.ai/comet/gettingstarted
bicepjai•7mo ago
I have a year subscription with perplexity and use it everyday for search. Honest reaction from getting started page demos for comet “I would not want that”
senectus1•7mo ago
yeah I explicitly do not want my searches "tailored" to me. I want factual results that I can explore and pick holes in.

I want it to be a trustworthy tool, not a companion.

patrickscoleman•7mo ago
You should check out kagi then

http://kagi.com/

bicepjai•7mo ago
The next service I will give my money is going to be Kagi since they seem to tick all the right boxes (for now) :)
snorrah•7mo ago
What a fucking awful website what the fuck is happening when I tried to scroll?
brador•7mo ago
Holds up a mirror to the uselessness of modern human existence.

What are we doing here?

Automated trekking bag purchasing.

Alifatisk•7mo ago
This https://www.perplexity.ai/comet/gettingstarted should be the home page, the current homepage should be somewhere else, you want to quickly introduce the app / service and answer the visitors first question, "what is this?"

Instead the home page hijacked my scrollbar and walked me through Perplexitys core values, principles and then introduced the whole planetary system before ending up in a FAQ!? Wth

Team Perplexity, you can do better than this, your business is all about distilling fluff into concrete answers, your website should portray the same message, this does not

alwillis•7mo ago
I've been using Dia for about a month. Dia is made by The Browser Company of New York, best known for the Arc browser [1].

Dia is a fabulous piece of work--it's much more than Chrome + a chatbot.

You can tell they thought deeply what would it mean for AI to be integrated into a browser, not just tacked on.

It's still in beta, but even at this stage, it's quite polished.

The custom skills are a killer feature. You'll wonder why every browser doesn't have it [2][3].

[1]: https://www.diabrowser.com

[2]: https://www.caneraras.com/learn/browser-skills-gallery

[3]: "Dia Browser Review in 120 seconds: The AI-First Browser Reimagining Web Interaction" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VijHiDCU4zc